David Cameron meeting the Indian PM on his ” successful” business trip

My ex Guardian and Exaro colleague David Pallister has been assiduously following the latest Agusta Westland scandal which led the Indian government to cancel an order for 12 helicopters to ferry Indian VIPs after allegations of corruption.

His latest article on the Exarowebsite reveals that proceedings investigating alleged corruption involving a middleman and another British businessman and Indian officials are continuing in both India and Italy.

My grouse is not with the pace of investigations in India or Italy into what the Indian press have dubbed the ” choppergate scandal” but the British government’s attitude to what is going on.

David Cameron in 2013 visited India with 100 business people to pledge that he wanted India to be a “partner of choice” with Britain. As you can hear hereMr Cameron praised Westland to the skies…